I strongly prefer requiring an explanation of your rating. I'd find a bunch of unsupported numbers much less useful and would expect such to be much less accurate. I like being able to see *why* that one person gave a module "zero stars" and being able to tell that none of the people giving that module perfect scores make any mention of trying X.1

That this will likely result in 10 reviews (that I have a hope of getting a lot of information out of) instead of 200 rating numbers (which is 1/100th as useful, not 20-times more useful), is not a problem for me.

If you are worried about some modules never getting reviewed, I think that will be easy to correct other than for modules that are not worth mentioning.

                - tye

1"X" is a generic placeholder despite the increasingly common practice of idiotic marketing/naming of windowing systems, operating systems, "active" web content, etc. q-:

In reply to Re^2: CPAN has a (beta) rating system (reviews++) by tye
in thread CPAN has a (beta) rating system by adrianh

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